"It is hard to believe how all the lords, knights and rulers throughout Germany became so despondent that even ten peasants without armor could take an unwinnable castle. - Then it turned around again, that a single knight could take ten peasants prisoner." Friedrich Myconius (1490-1546) With these words, the Gotha preacher and [...]

On the occasion of Thomas Ranft's 80th birthday on January 11, 2025, the Lindenau Museum is dedicating an ART WALL in the museum's Interim to his artistic and friendly relationship with Gerhard Altenbourg. Under the title "Currents", works by both artists will be juxtaposed. Gerhard Altenbourg and Thomas Ranft met in the early 1970s, when Ranft was studying at the [...]

In connection with the annual theme of "Faust", a commission from Oskar Schlemmer for the stage design for Christian Dietrich Grabbe's play "Don Juan and Faust" will be presented at the Bauhaus Museum Weimar. It was designed by the Bauhaus master in 1925 especially for the German National Theater Weimar. The play "Don Juan and Faust", a drama of ideas written in 1828, with which Christian Dietrich [...]